For Trump to be featured in an ISIS recruitment video seems more likely to help him than hurt him. If anything, the way this is reported, it is a video that seems designed to help the Democrats and Hillary in particular.
This is part of an email highlighting some of the events that have already been brought together for Freedomfest 2016 which will be held in Las Vegas July 13-16. There is nothing else like it. Mark Skousen over the course of three days brings together every group on the conservative/libertarian side of the political divide. And this will be just before what may be one of the most important elections in American history. You should go to the link and you should think about being there yourself. There is no other show on earth like it.
FORMER ISLAMIC RADICAL TO ADDRESS FREEDOMFEST
In response to the growing threat of radical Islamic terrorism both here and abroad, FreedomFest will host Dr. Tawfik Hamid, one-time Islamic extremist from Egypt, former member of Al-Qaeda, and author of the bestseller, “Inside Islam.” A physician from Egypt, he has appeared on CNN and Fox News, and has written op-eds for The Wall Street Journal. He has lectured at the Pentagon and the FBI on his strategic plan to defeat radical Islam.
Hamid will speak on “How Radical Islam Works. Why It Should Terrify Us, and How to Defeat It.”
Dr. Hamid will also participate in an important debate, “Can Islam be Reformed?” Not to be missed.
The people who are Seeing the West as worse are those who live in the West and have transferred their pathologies to others. The article was too mild for my liking since it doesn’t present our present world as in crisis. But very good from which we find:
The dominant ideology on college campus – “cultural relativism” – leaves little room for anything other than a nasty take on Western history and culture. Many students, whether of immigrant parentage or descendants of the Mayflower, have only vague appreciation or knowledge of Western civilization, making them highly vulnerable to such pleading. They often go through college now with only the vaguest notion of our history, the writings of the American founders, the philosophy of the Enlightenment, our vast cultural heritage or the fundamental principles of Christianity or, if you will, Judeo-Christianity.
The migrant flows are in only one direction and the reason is so evident that it requires a university education in the arts and humanities not to understand.
All from Drudge today. First this:
CHRISTIANITY FACING ELIMINATION BY ISIS APOCALYPSE WARNS ARCHBISHOP…
Islamic State allows taking organs of living non-Muslims…
Then this:
Pope Condemns excesses of modern society…
Reject consumerism…
There is something wrong here, but I just can’t quite put my finger on it.
Part of what I love about Australia is that we are the least PC country in the English speaking world. The picture is of Flinders Street Station in the middle of Melbourne and the same words are found all over our trams and buses. In the idiot parts of the Anglosphere there is a “War on Christmas” where such public displays of our Christian heritage are virtually impossible to imagine. Discussed here by Ed Driscoll at Instapundit who quotes Jonah Goldberg.
The war on Christmas represents a special kind of passive-aggressive jackassery because the aggressors deny they have declared a war. They simply take offense at Christmas cheer. They cancel Christmas pageants. They leave baby Jesus in a cardboard box in the church basement, but see nothing wrong with celebrating the Winter Solstice as if that’s a more rational thing to do. And then, when people complain about this undeclared war on Christmas, the aggressors mock and ridicule them for paranoia and hyperbole.
Much of what drives the left is their war on our Christian heritage and values. These latter-day Voltaires think they are free thinkers, standing up for truth and rationality when they are in reality our most deadly enemies since they have been willing to make common cause with Marxists and Islamists who also war against Christianity. Australia remains relatively unaffected by this, at least for now, but is far from unaffected. The hatred for Tony Abbott, for example, was in no small part driven by a widespread disdain on the left for his Christian beliefs.
Here’s the front story:
US BLOCKS UK MUSLIM FAMILY FROM BOARDING PLANE TO DISNEYLAND…
London Imam Claims More Than 20 Denied Entry…
Now here’s the backstory. This is from the Daily Mail in the UK: Just because Britain’s border security is a Mickey Mouse operation you can’t blame America for not letting this lot travel to Disneyland – I wouldn’t either. This is part of what she writes.
This lovely big British family aren’t exactly conventional. They are two brothers – and 9 children… between 8 and 19 years old.
I’m sorry? Two brothers and nine children. All called Mahmood.
When was the last time two grown men, took nine ‘kids’ abroad on their own?
And since when was a 19 year old a child? . . .
I have worked in Disneyland as a Security Guard. You don’t sound like our typical visitor group.
There’s quite a bit more as well at the link.
This is from If Economists Wrote Christmas Cards. As it says, the responses will melt your heart. I hope you all have a great Christmas.
Gavin McIness reflecting on the good life and western propsperity.
Last night wasn’t particularly eventful. We went out to dinner with some guys from work to celebrate Christmas break. The restaurant wasn’t very fancy and we spent a normal amount of money. Then I put on my Third World glasses and screamed, “Holy shit!” When you compare your average American’s night out with the 50% of the planet who live on less than $2.50 a day, you realize we are gods. America is a country built on mind-boggling inventions, remarkably diligent entrepreneurs, and unfathomable mountains of hard work. We take all this greatness and indulge in opulence that makes the Roman Empire look like a trailer park. What is everyone complaining about? Right now we’re celebrating a tradition that involves getting drunk with people who love you, eating until your stomach hurts, and opening tons of presents. What the hell is in heaven, cheaper beer?
Anyone can do what we do. The technology is available, the resources are there, all of the know-how is written up in books. So why doesn’t anyone else do it? It’s not really a mystery but you are not allowed to say.
This is a theme I have dwelt on before, progressive internationalism. Every era comes to an end for some reason. This is the reason for the end of ours. Here we have more of the same urged on by George Soros. The author here seems to see some kind of benevolence in Soros’ actions, but the actual drive is hatred for the open societies by the left.
George Soros, “a prominent international supporter of democratic ideals and causes” is no exception to the rule.
Under the false pretext of “democracy promotion” the notorious magnate created a network of foundations and instigated a series blatant regime changes in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics after the collapse of the USSR.
“Now his foundations are up to their eyeballs in promoting propaganda serving the US-UK war agenda for destroying stability in Syria as they did in Libya three years ago, creating the current EU refugee crisis,” Engdahl stresses.
It seems that Soros is making every effort to exacerbate the ongoing refugee crisis in the EU: the infamous philanthropist is urging European leaders to accept about one million of refugees annually and at the same time he is encouraging the desperate asylum seekers to flee to Europe.
And it will just go on because Soros is far from the only one with such attitudes and beliefs in positions of power.
This is a great parody that unfortunately you can only see at the link: How Ken Burns would tell the story of ‘Star Wars’. Tonight we will see the latest instalment. Since the first (Episode IV), it has been more of a duty to complete the set but off we will go, if for no other reason than to make sense of parodies like this one. And I did laugh at the idea of Senator Jar Jar Binks.
On filmic matters of a similar kind – dealing with Hollywood’s love of violent rebellion against established authority – we went to see Suffragette . What I had never appreciated was how violent these protests were. The film also did lead me to this documentary about the single most famous moment in suffragette history.
For me, the documentary was more interesting than the film but these are the more systematised views: Rotten Tomatoes: critics 74%/audiences 72%; IMDb: 6.9.
Law of Markets 